> That's not really what the term "compliance car" means in general use. The term "compliance car" in general use refers to cars produced to be in compliance w

> That's not really what the term "compliance car" means in general use. The term "compliance car" in general use refers to cars produced to be in compliance with a regulation. More specifically the cars you sited were produced to be in compliance with CARB standards. The Volt/Bolt are compliance cars for CAFE, which unlike CARB specifies that fleet is a reference to cars for sale in the United States. As I said in my original post, GM is probably hedging it's bets by developing the technologies that will scale up to it's entire fleet but has no desire to do so. When the Bolt launched, GM said they were going all electric and would be launching 18 EV models by 2023. So far we haven't heard anything about new models and the Bolt is speculated to be losing GM up to $9000 per car. Maybe those 18 models were just re-badges of the Bolt for different markets?